I’m trying to package and publish a tool I’ve been working on, but for the life of me, I’m struggling with Flatpak.

It’s a wails app, that relies on webkit2-4.0 and some additional libraries that are not present in any of the Sdks I’m using. (javascriptcore, etc…)

To get those libs, I tried building the app AND webkit itself against the specific platform. But since webkit takes such a long time to build, I’m running in circles.

Welp.

  • Fredol@lemmy.world
    11·
    8 months ago

    I’ve been trying for a while, looking up other manifests helped me but I’m still lost on a few things. Maybe we could help each other. I am the creator of open-tv.

    • adONis@lemmy.worldOP
      6·
      8 months ago

      I managed to get it somehow working, but it got rejected by Flathub, because they don’t want me to build webkit and use the network during build (which I need)

      I’m working on resticity, a restic frontend.

      • Pantherina@feddit.de
        5·
        8 months ago

        Is that webkit version outdated? In general you should try to support one of the supported versions.

        • adONis@lemmy.worldOP
          2·
          8 months ago

          TBH I’m fairly new to this. Gnome 45 sandbox has webkit2-4.1, while my PC build uses webkit2-4.0. Now, Gnome 3.38 sandbox has webkit2-4.0, but it still doesn’t run, due to missing libs. And I don’t know how to put everything together, so it works without having to re-build everything.

          • Pantherina@feddit.de
            2·
            8 months ago

            Hm, I would contact upstream devs to support 2-4.1 then and find / create git repos for the missing libs, then include those as binaries in your manifest. This should avoid network access?

      • baru@lemmy.world
        1·
        8 months ago

        Not relying on the network during a build is pretty common while making an rpm package. It’s a pretty reasonable requirement to have. I’d suggest looking into what e.g. the equivalent Fedora package does.

  • LiveLM@lemmy.zipEnglish
    8·
    8 months ago

    I’m currently helping package some dotnet apps and so far yeah it kinda sucks

    Though at least on my case dotnet might be more to blame

  • adONis@lemmy.worldOP
    5·
    8 months ago

    Noice! I got a successfull build of a flatpak bundle (without webkit) using GitHub actions. the bundle can be downloaded and installed via flatpak install --user xxx.flatpak and it’s running.

    Now I need to figure out, how to publish this to Flathub.

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
    0·
    8 months ago

    So us security/enterprise types hate it AND packagers hate it?

    We’ll have all of you back building 12 different package formats in no time!

      • adONis@lemmy.worldOP
        1·
        8 months ago

        yes… since it’s way easier to distribute, anything, by anyone.

        Speaking of which… I’m the official maintainer of all the crypto wallets out there… trust me, bro!